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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Check the WSBA Real Estate Deskbook. But I suspect partition is where you will end up.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">I am looking for life estate resources. Anyone have a good primer or updated briefing on life estates?</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">I found nothing in WA Law of Wills, Estate Planning or Probate WA Probate Deskbooks.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">My client (A) was provided a life estate in the mother’s home after death along with his brother (C) in his mother’s Will. The home is owned 50% by another brother (B).</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">They are not on the same page at all. A lives in the home, C moved recently and B is threating partition for sale. A does not want to move and wants to honor his mother’s wishes for him to be able to live
there until he dies.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Thank you.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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